Senior Unity Developer

2 Weeks ago • 3-5 Years • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

King New Games seeks a Senior Unity Developer to contribute to their Candy Crush Solitaire project. Responsibilities involve working within prototype teams, collaborating with creative teams, and developing innovative gameplay experiences. The role requires strong Unity/C# skills, architectural knowledge, mobile game development experience, and excellent communication skills. You'll be involved in technical quality oversight, driving improvements, and contributing to the creative process. Experience in performance optimization, mobile game releases, and tool creation are valuable assets. The position demands a generalist mindset, adaptability, and team collaboration within a fast-paced environment.
Must have:
  • Strong Unity/C# experience
  • Mobile game development expertise
  • Architectural knowledge & adaptability
  • Excellent communication & teamwork
  • Passion for game programming & quality
Good to have:
  • Experience creating dev tools
  • Runtime performance optimization (mobile)
  • Casual/mid-core game experience
  • Mobile game release experience

Job Details

Craft:

Technology & Development

Job Description:

Our studio is creating the future of King games! We are championing innovation and exploring new territories for our next game - Candy Crush Solitaire.
 

King New Games is looking for a passionate software engineer to help explore and forge exciting gameplay experiences to captivate our audiences in our latest solitaire experience within the Candy franchise.
 

Responsibilities
 

You will be working directly in one of our prototype teams, collaborating hand in hand with our creative team, trying to find that next innovative spark.

You are passionate about programming and have a sense of quality and polish. As a developer you have a generalist mindset and you are analytical and genuinely interested in the tech you work with, wanting to create a great tech foundation for games.

We want you to have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and to be a strong team player, able to work in a fast paced, demanding, yet fun and professional environment.
 

Skills to create thrills

  • Have a strong architectural knowledge with a generalist mindset and the ability to quickly adapt to new code bases

  • Have a strong Unity/C# experience

  • Experienced working in mobile gaming teams

  • Work closely with your team, both creatives and developers.

  • Help the team to grow to be a self organizing fast paced team.

  • Be that extra eye on overseeing the technical quality of the project and be the driver for improvements and future tech innovations.

  • Be part of the creative journey, actively contribute to the creative process, and then execute on it

  • You are keen to grow and develop yourself and learn from others.

  • You are very experienced in game development, being part of multiple game projects before.

  • You are a team player who is used to working as a team and to discuss solutions and ideas as a group.

Bonus skills

  • Experience creating and supporting tools used in game development.

  • Professional experience of runtime performance optimisation, ideally on mobile titles.

  • Experience from releasing mobile games

  • Experience working on a casual or mid-core game using Unity/C#

About King

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It’s our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is our mission – it’s the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let’s face it, who doesn’t love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren’t the only ones that can level-up. We’re always looking for ways to champion each other and make what’s already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.

Applications need to be in English.
Discover King at careers.king.com

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